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DHCP server also acting as relay
Hi.
I want to use the DHCP server that comes with vxWorks 6.4.
The DHCP server implementation has a table that contains addresses of DHCP servers that will receive a copy of all the client requests that the local server gets, thus the server acts as a dhcp relay at the same time.
Can anyone explain to me what is the use of this and how exactly does it work?
When the DHCP servers gets a request, it will answer it. If an address is defined in the table mentioned above, a copy of the request will be sent to another DHCP server, which I assume will also reply to it.
What happens now? which reply does the client chose and why? How is this mechanism useful?
Thanks.
Last edited by tomwolf; 08-20-2009 at 10:09 AM..